Researcher

Dr Sara Shirowzhan

Keywords

bim

gis

city analytics

construction & building technology

sustainable development

artificial intelligence

lidar

machine learning

housing

bushfire spatial pattern analysis

Fields of Research (FoR)

Building information modelling and management, Information systems for sustainable development and the public good, Automation and technology in building and construction, Urban informatics, Machine learning, Deep learning, Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling, Artificial intelligence, Disaster and emergency management, Housing markets, development and management

Biography

Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and UNSW co-lead of WIL CoP. She is also co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at UNSW. Sara’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in sustainable and resilient cities (SDG11), smart cities,...view more

Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and UNSW co-lead of WIL CoP. She is also co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at UNSW. Sara’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in sustainable and resilient cities (SDG11), smart cities, infrastructure, urban strategy development and construction. Sara teaches and supervises students on City Analytics, GIS, Construction Informatics and BIM relevant topics at undergrad and postgrad levels at UNSW. She is currently an Editorial Board member of the journals of Sustainability (MDPI) and Buildings journal. She is also a Topic Board member of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information as well as Review Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. Sara completed her PhD in Geomatics Engineering at UNSW.

My Grants

BIM/PIM and 3D GIS: progressing precinct modelling - $48,041

Western Sydney agri food analytics and mapping - $90,000

Improving coordination of data and actors for disaster-responsive housing and safer communities - AHURI- $164,881

My Qualifications

PhD from UNSW Faculty of Engineering

My Awards

2023 Outstanding paper award by The International Society for Digital Earth, in collaboration with Taylor & Francis and International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, for our paper titled "City Digital Twins: Their Maturity Level and Differentiation from 3D City Models", link to the paper here

PhD scholarship

Postdoctoral writing fellow

Best master’s thesis